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Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6) QUOTES

Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6) QUOTES

1 " We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

2 " I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth? "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

3 " An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door? "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

4 " Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg! "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

5 " But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

6 " But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

7 " One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

8 " In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

9 " It was a Guild of Assassins, after all. Black was what you wore. The night was black and so were you. And black had such style, and an Assassin without style, everyone agreed, was just a highly paid arrogant thug. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

10 " Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

11 " You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly.
'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.
There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended.
'In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher--'
'Well, yes, we could,' said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was. 'But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

12 " Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

13 " People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

14 " And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

15 " Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

16 " His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

17 " Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

18 " Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

19 " Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds! "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

20 " The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever. "

― Terry Pratchett , Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)